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LETTERS: Point Deroche - P.E.I.'s other permitting irregularity, and other letters

P.E.I.’s permitting irregularities

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P.E.I. media are awash with news that a provincial minister permitted development in the Summerside area in contravention of P.E.I.’s wetland conservation policy. A $100,000 charitable donation is also part of the story. What media reports have not mentioned is that this episode closely echoes a separate, and ongoing, permitting irregularity in another part of P.E.I.’s coastline.

In 2022, Jesse Rasch, an investment fund manager from Toronto, began construction of a 7,000-square-foot villa at Point Desroche, on P.E.I.’s north shore. The design included a large building at the edge of the bank and a rocky fortification that covered the beach in front of it. Soon after the project came to public attention, provincial officials visited the site, determined that it contravened provincial regulations, and issued a stop-work order. The legal basis of this determination is detailed........

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